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The city of Venice is set to replace the glass floor of Santiago Calatrava‘s Ponte della Costituzione bridge over the Grand Canal with stone, due to the high numbers of pedestrians slipping and falling. Read more

I am running into a new year and the old years blow back like a wind that I catch in my hair like strong fingers like all my old promises and it will be hard to let go of what I said to myself about myself when I was sixteen and twentysix and thirtysix even …

The UK’s largest architecture firm, Foster + Partners, has criticised a RIBA sustainability report backed by nearly 250 built environment organisations, claiming that it contradicts the watershed Paris Agreement treaty on climate change. Read more

I love you Tiny Desk. (Thank you Casey)

American studio PARA Project has designed a wooden pavilion on a canal in Bruges, Belgium, to be an uncanny « doppelgänger » of an adjacent 15th-century canal house. Read more

British architecture firm Adjaye Associates has designed a collection of pigmented-concrete pavilions in Winter Park, Florida, to house a library and an events centre. Read more

American technology company Framework has designed a laptop with modular components that can be repaired and replaced to increase the product’s lifespan while reducing e-waste. Read more

Mirror, brass and simple geometries feature inside this Parisian apartment by local architect Clément Lesnoff-Rocard, which offers an understated take on art deco. Read more

London-based architecture studio Apparata has completed a community-oriented housing development for artists with a playful design and a facade punctured by geometrically-shaped openings. Read more